Carel Van Baalen
Retired at Philips Global Infrastructure Services
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolCarel Van Baalen is a seasoned engineering manager and senior consultant with over 30 years of experience in IT infrastructure, project management, and service operations, primarily at Philips and its global subsidiaries. Based in Eindhoven, he transitioned from hands-on regional service and audio-frequency leadership at NOS to senior roles shaping Philips’ IT infrastructure, project offices, and subject-matter expertise. He combines deep operational know-how with practical software engineering experience, contributing backend work to the EventFlow .NET CQRS/ES framework and integrating it with ASP.NET Core. Known for bridging legacy operational disciplines with modern engineering practices, he excels at translating complex infrastructure requirements into reliable delivery. Now retired, he retains an active interest in engineering leadership and open-source backend development.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electronics, BS, Electronics at Fontys Hogescholen
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Github Skills (19)
cqrs10
asp-net-core10
event-sourcing10
dotnet-core10
async-await10
netcore10
csharp10
middleware9
nuget9
ddd9
testing8
dependency-injection6
asp-net6
entity-framework6
azure-devops6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eventflow/EventFlow
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Async/await first CQRS+ES and DDD framework for .NET
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Carel primarily contributed to the .NET Core backend of the EventFlow framework. Their work included adding an AspNetCore extension, which involved implementing middleware for command publishing. They also made updates to existing code, including changes to the site tests and the addition of NuGet package metadata. The commits demonstrate a focus on integrating EventFlow with ASP.NET Core.
cqrs-escqrsc-sharpasynceventsourcing
edwardwilson/nx
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
Nrwl Extensions for Angular
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
extensionsangular10angularnrwltypescript
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